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my armchair opinion about computers for the season is that i wanna see a "software degrowth" movement. seems like software, games, even programming languages (i've heard), are made like overpowered computers are normal, good, and gonna be around forever (and always improving), and anyone on slow old hardware needs to e-waste it and buy a new machine. it's giving "speeding your SUV down the freeway for 10 minutes to buy a bag of factory-farmed milk from the grocery store".

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Claire, The Ultimate Worrier
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Joseph Cox

A planned change to Amazon means that if people buy items on your wishlist, it could expose your address. Definitely a threat to people who have public wishlists.

404media.co/amazon-wishlist-ad

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Ned Batchelder

Git won't track empty directories (because at heart it only tracks files). Common advice is to add a '.gitkeep' file so the directory isn't empty and git will make the directory.

EVEN BETTER ADVICE: put a README in the directory explaining what the empty directory is for and what will eventually be there.

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AI, bcache drama, funny at techbro's expense 

Dudebro is so toxic, his AI girlfriend came out as a transbian and eloped with another transbian in his IRC channel.

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re: Linux rant 

My only choices are extremely niche, which will be supported for who knows how many more days, and vintage distro versions with the certainty of no more updates.

debian_banner_ad_the_potato_has_landed.gif

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Linux rant 

"Got a dusty old laptop you wish you could use again? Don't want to throw it out? Just run Linux on it!"

This is total BS, now that every major Linux distro has abandoned its i386/i686/x86 32-bit editions. I can't even find one to put on my Atom Netbook anymore, let alone my early XP era Dell Inspiron tank.

Especially don't promise such BS with a stock photo of an obvious Commodore PET 4032 with the nameplate taped over to make it look like a generic old PC.

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Ω 🌍 Gus Posey

Shark Tank reboot but it's just throwing rich people into a tank full of sharks.

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Jasper Fox :therian:

When therians shift

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Paco Hope

One of the ways that LLM-authored code improves productivity is by merely SAYING it does things. It's way faster than the whole time-consuming process of actually doing things. This is real code someone sent to me for review.

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Pavel A. Samsonov

Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus.

FOSS nerds: the Torment Nexus cannot be ethical until it is Open Source

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Jason Lefkowitz

I don't know who actually operates archive.today, but congratulations to them on figuring out the one thing they could do to make literally everyone flee from using their service

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Jason Lefkowitz

"In the course of discussing whether Archive.today should be deprecated because of the DDoS, Wikipedia editors discovered that the archive site altered snapshots of webpages to insert the name of the blogger who was targeted by the DDoS. The alterations were apparently fueled by a grudge against the blogger over a post that described how the Archive.today maintainer hid their identity behind several aliases."

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

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Ariel Millennium Thornton

Restaurant patron to waiter: "You're telling me a chicken fried this rice?"

Marty McFly (in apron and toque, bursting from the kitchen): "Nobody! Calls me! 'Chicken'!"

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abadidea

"The Master said: 'The common man gets drowned by water, the noble man gets drowned by his mouth, and the man of importance gets drowned by the people – it all lies in what they take too lightly.'"

(from "Black Robes" section of The Bamboo Texts of Guodian: A Study & Complete Translation by Scott Bradley Cook)

#classicalchinese #philosophy #translation

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abadidea

a humorous little infosec study in a case of a vendor applying their anti-piracy DRM to the installer and not to the actual software ud2.rip/blog/enigma-protector

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Rebane

self-hosting my S3 bucket the right way

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Laura Manach :bongoCat:
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Dot Maetrix

So this is a thing that is VERY VERY much nowhere near done yet, but I want to share what I've got so far. It's a list of as many retro games as I can find which had a trans person on the dev team or otherwise involved in some way, along with a quick summary of who and what they did. It's partially an attempt to counter the narrative that trans people are some New Thing that's only just showed up on the gameing scene and also society in general, which sometimes these kinds of lists can accidentally imply, and also it's just kind of a fun bit of HEY LOOK AT ALL THIS COOL SHIT TRANS PEOPLE DID. I've found over 170 games so far, with quite a lot I'm still to properly go off on.

dotmaetrix.neocities.org/class

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